Patents by Inventor Alex Hannay

Alex Hannay has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Mobile services
    Patent number: 7286836
    Abstract: A plurality of clients for different users use on-line services via a mobile communications network in a system comprising: an application database for holding a group of different applications for providing associated services to a client, the applications being configured to provide clients with unlimited off-line use and limited on-line use, an account database for keeping record of the amount of available on-line use of different services provided to the client and an on-line service controller for running on-line services with different clients and for causing the account database to reduce in a predetermined manner the amount of available on-line use when the client uses the on-line service, if the on-line use is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Emmerson, Alex Hannay
  • Mobile services
    Publication number: 20040185872
    Abstract: A plurality of clients for different users use on-line services via a mobile communications network in a system comprising: an application database for holding a group of different applications for providing associated services to a client, the applications being configured to provide clients with unlimited off-line use and limited on-line use, an account database for keeping record of the amount of available on-line use of different services provided to the client and an on-line service controller for running on-line services with different clients and for causing the account database to reduce in a predetermined manner the amount of available on-line use when the client uses the on-line service, if the on-line use is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Emmerson, Alex Hannay